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Who’s got game? That’s what we’ll be asking during a special competition happening at VentureBeat’s inaugural games conference for the industry’s top players, on March 24, 2009, at the Mission Bay Conference Center on UCSF’s campus in San Francisco, CA. …
[Update from Matt: We just finished our last task here at Sundance, about 24 hours after we started our first task. And we actually won the competition! Many thanks to those of you who tuned in to watch …
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that helps them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisers, board members and skilled …
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been taking nominations for the Crunchies 2008. You have voiced your support for your favorite startups, the most impressive entrepreneurs and the coolest gadgets.
Now, we’re opening up sales for the event.
This year’s …
VentureBeat is happy to officially announce The Crunchies 2008 — the second year of this tech-startup awards ceremony.
With the economic downturn setting in, there may be fewer business successes to celebrate for the foreseeable future. So it’s more important …
The VentureBeat “how to manage your start-up in a downturn” roundtable event happens tomorrow. We’ll be talking to John Doerr from VC firm Kleiner Perkins, Ram Shriram — one of Google’s first investors — Max Levchin of Slide and Jason …
Have you ever been sitting at your computer, wishing you could listen to your music collection without being forced to open a desktop application? If so, Lala is launching just the thing for you.
Since the beginning of the summer, …
While grinning investment bankers, safe pension funds and good returns from tech stocks may be hard to come by for the foreseeable future, the world does not lack start-ups promising to help indie musicians. Among them, ReverbNation, which has just …
Today, LP33.tv, the company formerly known as MyAWOL, goes live with its intensely ambitious site for unsigned musicians. The site centers around a video player that features original music videos, short band documentaries and news clips, all produced by LP33′s …
When people think your downloadable software sucks, it’s generally hard to find out what you did wrong. Web-based analytics make it easy to track the number of downloads you get, but after that the information tends to dry up. That’s …
Peter Thiel, the famous PayPal founder, hedge fund manager and angel investor, has a minor tendency to put money into outlandish concepts.
The early Facebook investor is the leading contributor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an organization dedicated …
After almost two months, the perpetually dysfunctional MobileChat has finally released an update to its instant messaging iPhone app. And you know what? It’s too late. I waited forever for an update and now I don’t care.
MobileChat had the …
The year is 2019. Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or REDS, has appeared in Stockholm, the first city outside of the tropics to see a case. The disease is known to overwhelm local health resources everywhere it goes, and news of health …
As the world sits of the doorstep of the biggest financial disaster since 1931, is Silicon Valley biting its nails? Mayfield Fund doesn’t think so. The firm, once considered the peer of the biggest names in venture capital, has raised …
If BranchNext, maker of Yotify, has its way, you will one day be able to get updates on everything that matters to you on the web. Do you like that shirt you saw on CafePress but don’t want to throw …
“Boulder is good for engineers — if you’re into innovation in rock climbing technology,” a friend once quipped about the outdoor-loving Colorado college town. But today, 12 startups from TechStars, a Boulder-based incubator, demoed their products in Mountain View, Calif. …
Norwest Venture Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms, has brought in Dror Nahumi, a former executive from one of Israel’s largest telecoms, to lead the firm’s investments in Israeli start-ups.
Israel’s start-up scene, which relies almost entirely on …
Right90, a Foster City, California, company specializing in “bottom-up sales forecasting” software, has raised $10 million in its third round of financing.
According to salesopedia, a handy glossary for sales and marketing terms, bottom-up sales forecasting is “an approach…which takes …
The hyper-local concept, which revolves around content — like business reviews — targeted to local niches, has had it rough. Over the last 18 months, two venture-backed start-ups, Judy’s Book and BackFence, have had to shut down. Another site, Insider …
